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Today at TechEd Barcelona, Jason Zander announced that Visual Studio Team System 2010 will feature a brand new Lab Management capability to help organizations raise the bar on software quality. Lab Management will integrate with the rest of the Visual
Studio to help testers more easily test a variety of configurations in a virtual lab environment, and help developers more easily repro bugs by delivering snapshots of those virtualized environments after bugs are discovered. I had a chance to sit down with
Ram Cherala and Vinod Malhotra to get an in-depth look at how this will work.

This "Humanized Screencast" is best viewed at fullscreen using the high-quality WMV download.

They already provide Virtual Lab Management and it's available as an on-demand cloud service over the web, so you can get going with this technology today without having to invest in lab infrastructure

>> Does it make a complete copy of the virtual machine or does it used linked clones, seems to take a long time to set up the test machines.

For now, when an environment is copied back and forth from the library, we do make complete copies. We plan to use linked clones (differencing disks) as an additional option in the future. For filing bugs, you can just use checkpoints and do not have to make
complete copies.

>> If I have Virtual machine manager 2008 installed, can I use my ESX servers as well as Hyper-V?

We are currently using VMWare to rollback and perform nightly tests. The drawback is after a month, the VM 'expires'. Has Microsoft thought this through? Do you support Kerbros etc? Are there any workarounds?